Future of TV Briefing: YouTube’s dynamic brand insertions could unlock the upfront market for creators

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how YouTube’s plan to enable creators to swap out sponsored segments normally baked into their videos may be the most disruptive development in the creator economy in 2026.

Ad Tech Briefing: Farewell to Google’s Privacy Sandbox, we barely knew ye

An obituary for Privacy Sandbox, Google’s abortive attempt to construct a privacy-first ad tech ecosystem.

Media Buying Briefing: Overheard at the Media Buying Summit: AI can be your best friend or worst enemy

Agency folk tell of over reliance on the AI's tools, and a face-value acceptance of information and data that in actuality requires human oversight to ensure accuracy

Future of Marketing Briefing: L’Oréal builds the data backbone to its creator marketing

L'Oréal's is building a data layer beneath its creator economy push.

Media Briefing: Why some publishers are flipping their position on whether to block AI bots

Some publishers that blocked all AI bots are rethinking their stance, as AI platform traffic raises new monetization and access trade-offs.

Future of TV Briefing: The ad product OpenAI should introduce in Sora (I’m sorry)

This week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at how OpenAI could create a commercial version of Sora’s Cameos feature that could thread the needle between a sponsored product, affiliate commerce and a revenue-sharing program for creators.

Digiday+ Research: 5 charts on the state of retail media

Brands are boosting their retail media spending as networks drive sales and customer growth, according to new research from Modern Retail.

Ad Tech Briefing: Inside The Trade Desk’s POV on the future of open internet monetization

Sincera co-founder Mike O’Sullivan is hopeful that a GAM breakup can rejuvenate publishers’ yield-management prospects.